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Slamming the government over the agriculture Budget, Congress MP Randeep Singh Surjewala on Thursday said in the Rajya Sabha that the Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ministry had surrendered Rs 1 lakh crore of its allocated Budget in the past five years. Initiating the discussion on Thursday, Surjewala said that talks on the ministry’s work will continue on Friday.
Prime Minister Narenda Modi’s promise to double the income of farmers by 2022 had proved to be a “jumla” as their income dropped — from 4.47% of the total Budget in 2020-2021 to 2.74% in 2024-2025 — in several states, as found by a parliamentary standing committee report that year, Surjewala said, adding that “it was a matter of shame.”
He said that the government had announced the Rs 1 lakh-crore agriculture infrastructure funds in 2020, but sanctioned only Rs 35,000 crore worth of projects so far, and disbursed Rs 25,504 crore of the amount. The PM Fasal Bima Yojana was the “biggest private insurance company profiteering scheme,” he said.
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